05-17-2011, 07:36 PM
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May 18th
1872 ~ Birthday of Bertrand Russell, Logician & Philosopher, awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950.
1910 ~ The Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet.
1911 ~ Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer.
1919 ~ Birthday of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Ballet dancer.
1937 ~ Birthday of Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer.
1944 ~ Monte Cassino fell to the Allies.
1974 ~ India became the sixth nuclear nation by successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon.
1975 ~ Death of Leroy Anderson, American Composer.
1980 ~ Mount St. Helens in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.
1993 ~ In a penetrating comment on the European notion of democracy, the second attempt to ratify the Maastricht Treaty, which could not come into effect unless ratified by all members of the European Union, was placed before the Danes. When the result of the referendum was announced, the outcome and frustrations about the referendum being held only a year after the Danes had rejected the previous treaty led to riots in the Nørrebro area of Copenhagen, during which the police fired into a crowd. 11 people were subsequently treated for gunshot wounds.
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